What is Fl0wer ?

Fl0wer is an extremely powerful and flexible Network Intelligence software platform conceived to solve network visibility problems and network protection issues, to verify proper usage of company resources and to be used as a network blackbox to track all traffic metadata and solve otherwise unnoticed problems. The Fl0wer platform is structured as a typical client/server solution, with a licensed server data collector (receiving data from Netflow/IPFIX Sources) and open-source CLI Tools, GUI Client and documented JSON API to interact and handle data.

It runs on common 64 bit Linux platforms (releases for other Unixes like Solaris, AIX, NetBSD, etc. are available on demand), it is extremely scalable with enterprise class features and performance, has full support for IPv4 and IPv6 and it has an extremely low TCO. It is written in multithreaded C language and can scale both vertically and horizontally. It includes a LUA interpreter that can execute a customizable script for each processed flow.

While its engine is a licensed product, all the data it saves and the JSON API interface are fully documented; CLI Tools and GUI Application are Open Source, allowing for unmatched integrations, customizations and data feeding to Analytics like ELK, Splunk, Graphite or Apache HADOOP, just to name a few. It exploits the power of Netflow V1, V5, V9 and IETF/IPFIX technologies to achieve its goals. No Java, DB or bloatware required.